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Date of Observation ...... May 13, 2020 Instrument ............... 13.1" f/4.5 dobsonian Magnification ............ 76x Location ................. Fredericksburg, VA (light pollution map) Observer ................. Eric David Skies .................... clear, cool, no Moon, slight haze & humidity |
I found this galaxy to be difficult to locate. For some reason it took me quite a while to orient myself to go the right direction from the asterism of the wide arrow northwest of Melotte 111 to get to the star group in which NGC 4359 resides. But once I got to the right spot, I found this object to be easier than most of the previous ones this evening. There is an obtuse triangle of equally bright stars in the eyepiece view that provides a good guidepost to this galaxy, and I was able to identify it first with averted vision and then actually hold it with direct vision. |